poetry terminology Flashcards
septet
seven line stanza
sestet
six line stanza
caesura
break in the middle of a line, marked by a piece of punctuation.
liebestod
the theme of erotic love and death together.
paradox
a contradictory statement or proposition.
analysis
past event that’s narrated later than its chronological place.
envoy
short stanza at the end of the poem such as a ballad that is used to address a person.
prolepsis
order of events that’s disrupted so a future plot point is told before it happens.
euphemism
a mild or indirect expression that’s used to replace one that’s too harsh or blunt
free verse
a form of poetry that doesn’t follow any strict rhyme scheme or rhythm
phrase that uses negataition to create an affirmative statement
dialect lexis
words used in text or spoken data
repetend
a phrase or line that is repeated, sometimes with variation, at irregular points in the poem.
asyndeton
a fig of speech In which co ordinating junctions, and as if but, that joins words or clauses too make them sound of equal importance.
polysyndeton
device that uses multiple repetitions of the same conjunction
refrain
a line, word, or phrase that is repeated periodically within the poem to build up drama emphasis or rhythm
corporal imagery
imagery of the hands
diacope
repetition of words
medial caesura
punctuation in the middle of a line
free verse
no strict stanza type
triadic structure
set of 3 eg
rather run than walk, rather climb than run, rather leap
parenthetic dashes
used ti mirror sense of disruption in some way “-“
archaism
old English words connote tradition and ritualism
villanelle
poetic form
polysemanic
many meanings
